The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-08-11

who in this world had their 10Y in the
healing art doing now? Busy at their old
business. No sickness in Heaven, but
plenty Of sickness on earth, plenty of
wounds in the different parts of Gods
dominion to be healed and to be medi-
Gated. You cannot understand why that
patient got well after all the skillful doc
tors of New York and BROOKLYN had said
he must die. Perhaps Abercrembie
touched him Abercrombie, who, after
many years doctoring the bodies and the
souls of people in Scotland, went up to
God in 1874. Perhaps Abercrombie touched
him.
l should not wonder if my old friend
DR.. John Brown, who died in Edinburgh
John Brown, the author of "Rab and
His Friends"-John Brown, who was as
humble q Christian as he was skillful
physician and word-renowned author-I
should not wonder if he had been back
again and again to see some of his old
patients. Those who had their JOY in
healing the sickness and the woes of earth,
gone up to Heaven, are come forth again
for benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found
their chief Joy in conversation and in
sociality doing now? In brighter con-
versation there and in grander sociality.
What place TO visit in, where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens. You
yourselves kingly and queenly. If they
want to know more particularly about the
first Paradise, they have only 10 go over to
ask Adam. II they want to know how the
sun and the moon halted, they have only
to 90 over and ask Joshua. If they want
to know how the storm pelted Sodom, they
have only to go over and ask Lot. If they
want to know more about the arrogance of
Haman, they have only to go over and ask
Mordecai. If they want to know how the
Red Sea boiled over when it was cloven,
they have only to 90 over and ask Moses.
If they want TO know the particulars about
the Bethlehem advent, they have only to
go over and ask the serenading angels who
stood that Christmas night in the balconies
of crystal. If they want to know more OF
the particulars of the crucihXion, they have
only to go over and ask those who were
personal spectators while the mountains
crouched and the heavens got black III the
face at the spectacle. If they want to
know more about the sutferngs Of the
Scotch Covenanters, they have only TO go
over and ask Andrew Melville. II they
! want to know more about the Old time re-
vivals, they have only to 90 over and ask
Whitefeld aud Wesley, and Livingston,
md Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Finney.
o. what a place to visit in.
If eternity were one minute shorter it
would not be long enough for such soci-
alitv. Think of our friends who in his
world were passionately fond Of flowers
TUNED into par0dsel Think OF our friends
who were very fond of raising SUI erb fruit
TUNED into the orchard where each tree has
twelve kinds of fruit at once, and bearing
the fruit all the year round!
What are our departed Christian friends
doing in Heaven, those who on earth found
their chief JOY in the Gospel ministry:
They are visiting their old congregations.
, Most of those ministers have got then
/ people around them already. When | gel
l to Heaven as by the grace of God l am
) destined to 60 to that place I viii come
3 and see Won all. Yea, | will come to al
) the people 10 whom have administered il
, the GOSPEL, and to the millions of souls tc
= whom, through the kindness OF the print
3 ing press, l am permitted to preach every
! week in his land and in other lands-let-
. ters coming from New Zealand and AUS
s trulja, and uttelmost parts Of the earth, as
D ! well as from near nations, telling me OF
0 the souls | have helped will visit then
3 all. I give them fam notice. Our departed
friends of the ministry engaged III tina
i dclectable entertainment now.
I But what are our departed Christian
| IIlenuS VINO III al departments o. uSSL III
. ness We're busy, finding their chief joy il
doing good-Whot ale they doing now
Going right on with tire worS. JOIN
Il Howard visiting dungeons; tie dead Wo
:. men Of northern and southern battlefield
. still abroad looking for the wounded
p George Peabody still watching the poor
: Thomas Clarkson still looking afterthe en-
q slayed-al! Of those who did good on cart
. busel since death than tctoIe.
IL The tombstone not the terminus bHt tn
W starting post. What are our depariet
Il Christian friends who found their chic
: JOY in studying God doing nov? Studyin!
), God yet. No need o. revelation now, 10
y unblnehed they are lace TO face. Nov
they can handle tue omnipo,ent thunder
o bolts Just as I'D handles "A sword OF
Il father come back from victorious battle
g They have no sin, nor fear consequently
Studying Christ, not through revelation
: save the revelation OF tie sears, ihatdee
o lettering which trngF 1t all up gulc
II enough. Studying The CHRIST OF The Beth
lehem carayansalF, the Christ OF the awfu
J massacre with It's hemorrhage OF head AM
: hand and foot and FloIe-the Christ OF tn
5 shattered mau.o'eum-t thrlst lie sacrifice
: the star, the sun, Tie man, the God man
y tie man God.
But harEl the bell OF the cathedral ring
Il -tLe potbg droi hpll of Heaven